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Ride to the Bike Walk CT Dinner Meetup in Hartford - Bike Ride to CCSU Monday, November 24th Leaving 4:45PM from DEEP near Bushnell P...

Here's a question to get you thinking.  How did you learn to cross railroad tracks at a ninety degree angle?  Did you learn about the sa...

Heya bike folks.  I know you are jonesing for your bike that was put away months ago or is perhaps suffering with you through the winter on ...

Brendan put on a great Eel and there was much bike diversity and trail diversity.  Only at an Eel will there be a Huffy  and a  Peter Moone...

But did we stop riding?  No.  We did not stop riding. It's pretty time. In doing my part to extend fair weather cyclists and commut...

In a previous post, I waxed on about the overwhelming bicycle packed weekend approaching in September .  In this post I'll break it down...

Not really.  We love Chris.  But I did take a compromising picture of him on the way back from Middlefield.  Although we didn't have the...

Open letter to folks that like to have fun, Get off your ass and ride both these great events in Hartford happening within a week of each ...

Heya kiddos.  The Discover Hartford Parks Tour is Saturday, September 29th.  I'm looking for 6-8 mobile bike mechanics / route marshals...

Get on your bikes and ride down to the Old State House  in downtown Hartford for some camaraderie and free breakfast.  I'll see you all ...

Put back up a couple of ghost bikes on Burnside Avenue in East Hartford.  The CT DOT removed the originals last winter before one of the ...

With an early Spring and $4 gasoline there are welcome new rumblings around the water cooler.  A perfect storm that lines up with the effor...

For the second Tuesday in a row, we had another unseason- ably warm weather forecast, so I went ahead and followed the basic formula that h...

Want a job involving a bike, but don't want to work in a bike shop or be a courier? Be executive director of Bike Walk CT. See the p...

The ride from Hartford to New Britain for the annual Bike Walk Connecticut dinner could have been worse. But, it could have been much easie...

I unwittingly got an early start on Bike to Work Week with a full-day Sunday work call in South Green. The weather was very accommodating, ...

This morning, Bikes Outside takes a field trip to a near-flung corner of hard hittin' New Britain. There, on the grounds of CCSU, Bike W...

Remember The Eel? First, it was this cool off road race thing in the rain with a respectable number of participants. Then, it was an alley c...

Early this spring, the bombshell was dropped that the Central Connecticut Bicycle Alliance's familiar name would be no more. The organiz...

Today was the monthly Bike to Work event, and from what I hear, the only one scheduled for the year. Finding this hard to believe, I read ov...